Editing Cahokia, Illinois

{{Short description|Village in the United States}}
{{About|the modern-day village in Illinois|other uses|Cahokia (disambiguation)}}
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'''Cahokia''' is a settlement and former village in [[St. Clair County, Illinois|St. Clair County]], [[Illinois]], United States, founded as a colonial French mission in 1689. Located on the east side of the Mississippi River in the [[Greater St. Louis]] metropolitan area, as of the [[United States Census, 2010|2010 census]], 15,241 people lived in the village. On May 6, 2021, the village was incorporated into the new city of [[Cahokia Heights, Illinois|Cahokia Heights]].<ref name="KMOV">{{cite web|url=https://www.kmov.com/news/3-metro-east-cities-officially-merge-to-create-cahokia-heights/article_efe3f3d2-ae56-11eb-90b7-5730b1d3504b.html|publisher=[[KMOV]]|access-date=May 6, 2021|date=May 6, 2021|title=3 Metro East cities officially merge to create Cahokia Heights}}</ref>

The name refers to one of the clans of the historic [[Illiniwek]] confederacy, who met early French explorers to the region. Early European settlers named the nearby (and long-abandoned) [[Cahokia Mounds]] in present-day [[Madison County, Illinois|Madison County]] after the Illini clan. But the [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]] and State Historic Park was developed by the [[Mississippian culture]], active here from AD 900 to AD 1500 some connection to the clan is possible but unknown. The area was part of an extensive urban complex, the largest of the far flung Mississippian culture territory through the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys.

French Canadian colonists founded Cahokia village in 1696 as a Catholic mission. The historic [[Church of the Holy Family (Cahokia)|Church of the Holy Family]] is the oldest continually active Catholic parish in the United States, as well as the oldest church west of the [[Allegheny Mountains]]. Other significant colonial and Federal-period buildings listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] include the [[Cahokia Courthouse State Historic Site|Cahokia Courthouse]] (c. 1740, in the [[French Colonial]] style); and the [[Jarrot Mansion State Historic Site|Jarrot Mansion]] (c. 1810).

==History==
===Cahokia Mounds===
{{main|Cahokia Mounds}}

[[Archeologists]] ascribe the [[Earthworks (archaeology)|earthwork mounds]] Cahokia complex to the [[Mississippian culture]], an earlier [[indigenous people]] who are not believed to have been ancestral to the Illini. The city site reached its peak in the 13th century and was abandoned centuries before European contact.

The Cahokia Native Americans of the Illinois did not coalesce as a tribe and live in the Illinois area until nearly the time of French contact 300 years ago.

===Pinet's Mission===
{{main|Mission of the Guardian Angel#Pinet's Mission}}

Father Pinet founded a [[Mission (Christian)|mission]] in late 1696 to [[religious conversion|convert]] the Cahokian and [[Tamaroa (tribe)|Tamaroa]] Native Americans to [[Christianity]]. Father Pinet and the Seminary of Foreign Missions of Quebec built a log church and dedicated it to the [[Holy Family]].

===18th-century settlement===
During the next 100 years, Cahokia became one of the largest French colonial towns in the [[Illinois Country]]. It was centrally located for trading Indian goods and furs, and grew to about 3,000 inhabitants. Its thriving business district reflected a frontier society numerically dominated by needy males, as it had 24 brothels. The nearby town of [[Kaskaskia, Illinois|Kaskaskia]] on the [[Mississippi River]] (founded 1703) became the region's leading shipping port, and [[Fort de Chartres]] (founded 1718) was developed by the French as a military and governmental command center. The {{convert|50|mi|km|adj=on}} area of land between the two villages<!-- Which two? --> was cultivated by farming settlers, known as ''[[habitants]]'', whose main crop was wheat. As settlement expanded, the relationship between the settlers and the Indians continued to be peaceful. Settlers were mostly [[Canadien]] migrants whose families had been in North America for a while.

===French and Indian War===
Cahokia declined after the French lost the [[French and Indian War]] in North America to the British in 1763, as part of the broader [[Seven Years' War]] in Europe. Only [[Fort Kaskaskia]] (built 1733) was destroyed in the conflict, and Cahokia remained regionally important for another four decades. In the treaty ending the war, France ceded large parts of what it called the Illinois Country east of the Mississippi River to the British, including the area of Canada. Many French-speaking residents of Cahokia and elsewhere in what had been [[Upper Louisiana]] moved west of the river to territory still controlled by the French rather than live under British rule. Many moved to [[Louisiana (New Spain)|Lower Louisiana]], where they founded new Canadien villages on the west side of the Mississippi River, such as [[Ste. Genevieve, Missouri]], and St. Louis.

The [[Odawa people|Odawa]] leader [[Pontiac (person)|Pontiac]] was assassinated by other Indians in or near Cahokia on April 20, 1769.

===American Revolutionary War===
[[File:Col. George Rogers Clark's conference with the Indians at Cahokia - NARA - 518213.tif|thumb|left|upright=0.8|''Col. George Rogers Clark's conference with the Indians at Cahokia'', unknown artist, from the [[National Archives and Records Administration]]]]
In 1778, during the [[American Revolutionary War]], Virginian [[George Rogers Clark]] captured Kaskaskia and set up a court in Cahokia, making Cahokia an independent city state even though it was part of the British [[Province of Quebec (1763–91)|Province of Quebec]]. Cahokia (and Kaskaskia and the rest of Illinois County) officially became part of the United States by the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)]], by which the United States took over former British territory west of the Appalachian Mountains. The US soon designated this area as the [[Northwest Territory]] (and, after Ohio and Indiana became states, the [[Illinois Territory]]). Meanwhile, 105 Cahokia "heads of household" pledged loyalty to the [[Continental Congress]] of the United States.
[[File:Falling Springs Cahokia Illinois.jpg|thumb|Falling Springs, a waterfall in the Cahokia area]]

===Northwest Ordinance===
After Congress passed the [[Northwest Ordinance]] in 1787 and established a governmental system for the territory, the [[Cahokia Courthouse]] was adapted for use as a United States territorial courthouse. Cahokia continued as a major political center for the next 24 years. Flood-prone Kaskaskia became the governmental seat of the [[Illinois Territory]] (1809–1818), until the territorial seat was moved to [[Vandalia, Illinois]], and in 1809 became the county seat of [[Randolph County, Illinois|Randolph County]]. Cahokia became the seat of St. Clair County, named by and after [[Arthur St. Clair]], the first territorial governor. When St. Clair County was enlarged in 1801 and 1809, Governor [[William Henry Harrison]] (and later territorial secretary and acting governor [[Nathaniel Pope]]) named the Cahokia Courthouse as the legal and governmental center of a sizeable area extending to the Canada–U.S. border. By 1814, other counties and territories had been organized, and St. Clair County became its current size. The county seat was moved to the more centrally located [[Belleville, Illinois]], (incorporated 1819 and as a city in 1850) when a local developer offered to donate land for a new county courthouse and seat.

===Annexed territory===
In the late 1950s, Cahokia annexed some population and territory, increasing its population by more than 15,000 in 1960.

==Geography==
Cahokia was located at {{coord|38.561901|-90.172878|type:city_region:US|format=dms|display=inline}}.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the 2010 census, Cahokia had a total area of {{convert|9.9|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|9.4|sqmi|sqkm|2}} (or 94.95%) is land and {{convert|0.5|sqmi|sqkm|2}} (or 5.05%) is water.<ref name="census-g001">{{cite web
  |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US1710370
  |title=G001 - Geographic Identifiers - 2010 Census Summary File 1
  |access-date=August 2, 2015
  |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]
  |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213084421/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US1710370
  |archive-date=February 13, 2020
  |url-status=dead
  }}</ref>

===Climate===
{{Weather box   <!-- Infobox begins -->
| single line = Y
| location    = Cahokia, Illinois, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1997&ndash;present

|Jan record high F = 72
|Feb record high F = 81
|Mar record high F = 86
|Apr record high F = 92
|May record high F = 95
|Jun record high F = 107
|Jul record high F = 107
|Aug record high F = 105
|Sep record high F = 102
|Oct record high F = 94
|Nov record high F = 85
|Dec record high F = 75

|Jan avg record high F = 63.5
|Feb avg record high F = 69.9
|Mar avg record high F = 79.4
|Apr avg record high F = 86.4
|May avg record high F = 90.4
|Jun avg record high F = 95.9
|Jul avg record high F = 97.8
|Aug avg record high F = 97.5
|Sep avg record high F = 93.9
|Oct avg record high F = 87.4
|Nov avg record high F = 75.5
|Dec avg record high F = 66.6
|year avg record high F = 99.7

<!-- Average high temperatures -->
| Jan high F  =40.7
| Feb high F  =46.0
| Mar high F  =56.1
| Apr high F  =67.5
| May high F  =76.1
| Jun high F  =84.8
| Jul high F  =88.5
| Aug high F  =87.3
| Sep high F  =80.3
| Oct high F  =69.5
| Nov high F  =56.2
| Dec high F  =45.1
<!-- Mean daily temperature -->
| Jan mean F  =31.4
| Feb mean F  =35.8
| Mar mean F  =45.4
| Apr mean F  =56.5
| May mean F  =66.0
| Jun mean F  =74.8
| Jul mean F  =78.7
| Aug mean F  =77.0
| Sep mean F  =69.5
| Oct mean F  =57.7
| Nov mean F  =45.7
| Dec mean F  =35.8
<!-- Average low temperatures -->
| Jan low F  =22.0
| Feb low F  =25.6
| Mar low F  =34.7
| Apr low F  =45.4
| May low F  =56.0
| Jun low F  =64.9
| Jul low F  =68.9
| Aug low F  =66.7
| Sep low F  =58.6
| Oct low F  =46.0
| Nov low F  =35.3
| Dec low F  =26.6

|Jan avg record low F = 2.9
|Feb avg record low F = 8.1
|Mar avg record low F = 17.0
|Apr avg record low F = 30.3
|May avg record low F = 39.4
|Jun avg record low F = 52.0
|Jul avg record low F = 57.9
|Aug avg record low F = 53.9
|Sep avg record low F = 44.3
|Oct avg record low F = 28.7
|Nov avg record low F = 20.4
|Dec avg record low F = 10.5
|year avg record low F = 0.5

|Jan record low F = -14
|Feb record low F = -7
|Mar record low F = 4
|Apr record low F = 24
|May record low F = 33
|Jun record low F = 45
|Jul record low F = 50
|Aug record low F = 47
|Sep record low F = 35
|Oct record low F = 22
|Nov record low F = 11
|Dec record low F = -5

<!-- Total precipitation, this should include rain and snow. -->
| precipitation colour    =  green
| Jan precipitation inch  =2.67
| Feb precipitation inch  =2.26
| Mar precipitation inch  =3.55
| Apr precipitation inch  =4.63
| May precipitation inch  =4.80
| Jun precipitation inch  =4.30
| Jul precipitation inch  =5.02
| Aug precipitation inch  =3.09
| Sep precipitation inch  =3.35
| Oct precipitation inch  =3.04
| Nov precipitation inch  =3.33
| Dec precipitation inch  =2.75

|unit precipitation days = 0.01 in
|Jan precipitation days = 9.0
|Feb precipitation days = 7.9
|Mar precipitation days = 10.4
|Apr precipitation days = 11.6
|May precipitation days = 12.2
|Jun precipitation days = 10.2
|Jul precipitation days = 8.4
|Aug precipitation days = 7.6
|Sep precipitation days = 7.2
|Oct precipitation days = 8.2
|Nov precipitation days = 8.3
|Dec precipitation days = 9.5

<!-- Snowfall -->
| Jan snow inch  =4.9
| Feb snow inch  =3.7
| Mar snow inch  =1.2
| Apr snow inch  =0.3
| May snow inch  =0.0
| Jun snow inch  =0.0
| Jul snow inch  =0.0
| Aug snow inch  =0.0
| Sep snow inch  =0.0
| Oct snow inch  =0.0
| Nov snow inch  =0.8
| Dec snow inch  =2.9

|unit snow days = 0.1 in
|Jan snow days = 2.8
|Feb snow days = 2.4
|Mar snow days = 1.0
|Apr snow days = 0.2
|May snow days = 0.0
|Jun snow days = 0.0
|Jul snow days = 0.0
|Aug snow days = 0.0
|Sep snow days = 0.0
|Oct snow days = 0.0
|Nov snow days = 0.3
|Dec snow days = 2.1

|source 1 = NOAA<ref name = NOAA>
{{cite web
|url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&stations=USC00111160&format=pdf&dataTypes=MLY-TMAX-NORMAL,MLY-TMIN-NORMAL,MLY-TAVG-NORMAL,MLY-PRCP-NORMAL,MLY-SNOW-NORMAL
|publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|title = U.S. Climate Normals Quick Access – Station: Cahokia, IL
|access-date = February 25, 2023
}}
</ref>
|source 2 = National Weather Service (mean maxima/minima 2006&ndash;2020)<ref name = NOWData>
{{cite web
|url = https://www.weather.gov/wrh/climate?wfo=lsx
|publisher = National Weather Service
|title = NOAA Online Weather Data – NWS St. Louis
|access-date = February 25, 2023
}}
</ref>
}}

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1880= 211
|1930= 286
|1940= 465
|1950= 794
|1960= 15829
|1970= 20649
|1980= 18904
|1990= 17550
|2000= 16391
|2010= 15241
|2020= 12096
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}

===2020 census===
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|+'''Cahokia village, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Cahokia village, Illinois|url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=160XX00US1710370&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Cahokia village, Illinois|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US1710370&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Cahokia village, Illinois|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US1710370&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2000
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|9,363
|5,126
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2,689
|57.12%
|33.63%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |22.23%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|6,299
|9,455
|style='background: #ffffe6; |8,554
|38.43%
|62.04%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |70.72%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|47
|30
|style='background: #ffffe6; |43
|0.29%
|0.20%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.36%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|61
|29
|style='background: #ffffe6; |10
|0.37%
|0.19%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.08%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|5
|2
|style='background: #ffffe6; |6
|0.03%
|0.01%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.05%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|12
|29
|style='background: #ffffe6; |52
|0.07%
|0.19%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.43%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|235
|272
|style='background: #ffffe6; |457
|1.43%
|1.78%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.78%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|369
|298
|style='background: #ffffe6; |285
|2.25%
|1.96%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.36%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''16,391'''
|'''15,241'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''12,096'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=January 31, 2008 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> of 2000, there were 16,391 people, 5,693 households, and 4,252 families residing in the village. The population density was {{convert|1,705.8|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 6,213 housing units at an average density of {{convert|646.6|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the village was 58.28% White, 38.69% African American, 0.32% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.38% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.03% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.73% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.56% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 2.25% of the population.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/Summary_File_4/Illinois/|title=Index of /census_2000/datasets/Summary_File_4/Illinois|website=www2.census.gov}}</ref>

There were 5,693 households, out of which 41.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.2% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 25.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.3% were non-families. 20.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.84 and the average family size was 3.27.

In 2010, the population dropped to 15,241, with 61.30% being African American and 34.5% of the population being white alone.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/cahokiavillageillinois/POP010210#POP010210 |title=U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Cahokia village, Illinois |publisher=Census.gov |date= |accessdate=July 20, 2022}}</ref>

In the village, the population was spread out, with 33.4% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 16.9% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 88.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.5 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $31,001, and the median income for a family was $35,582. Males had a median income of $31,806 versus $22,429 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the village was $14,545. About 22.8% of families and 24.9% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 37.0% of those under age 18 and 5.3% of those age 65 or over.

==Transportation==
Cahokia is home to the [[St. Louis Downtown Airport]], a [[general aviation]] facility.

Metro operates the #2 bus route to [[East St. Louis, Illinois]], where connections can be made to the MetroLink light rail to [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]].

==Education==
*[[Cahokia Unit School District 187]] operates public schools.

==Notable people==
*18th-century settler [[Marie Josephte L'Archevêque]], her daughter [[Marie Joseph La Marche]] (Mme. Le Comte), and granddaughter Marie Josette Languedoc from Cohakia inspired what Governor [[John Reynolds (Illinois politician)|John Reynolds]] said was the "truthful" telling of [[Madam La Compt]] in ''Pioneer History of Illinois.''
*[[Terron Armstead]] - NFL player
*[[Well Hungarians]] – country and rock band
* [[Michael B. Whit]] - country singer-songwriter

==See also==
*[[Battle of St. Louis]] (1780)

==References==
<references />

==Further reading==
* Reed, Denita. ''Cahokia'' (Images of America). [[Arcadia Publishing]], 1998. {{ISBN|0738589977}}, 9780738589978.

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[[Category:Former municipalities in Illinois]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Illinois]]
[[Category:Populated places disestablished in 2021]]
[[Category:Villages in Illinois]]